Re: How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-09 Thread David Given
They seem to be mostly interested in packaging bazel *for* Debian, while I'm more interested in building packages *with* bazel. Currently I'm mainly concerned about my own software (where with my other hat I am the developer, as well as the maintainer), but this is going to show up more as bazel us

Re: How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-08 Thread M. Zhou
Hi David, Debian has a group of people working on bazel packaging. https://lists.debian.org/debian-bazel/2022/06/threads.html And bazel itself has been a years-long pain for tensorflow packaging. I'm not following the updates for bazel packaging, but you may browse the packaging work of the corre

How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-08 Thread David Given
I'm looking into converting some of my upstream packages to use Google's bazel build system, because it makes life much easier as a developer. Unfortunately, with my other hat on, it makes life much harder as a package maintainer: bazel is very keen on downloading source packages and then building